Students from Hari Hari Area School, Department of Conservation staff, community volunteers, and members of Sustainable Coastlines worked together to plant 200 trees alongside a stream that flows through the school. This complemented a project already started by the school to help protect the waterway where students have been monitoring water quality.
Students from Ngata College, Department of Conservation and Local Marae, and members of Sustainable Coastlines worked together on Friday 27 June 2014 to put 300 trees in the ground to help rejuvenate the banks of the Reporua Stream in Ruatoria.
Volunteers enjoyed a BBQ after their mahi to celebrate working together to help look after the local environment and protect our waterways. This effort was our part to help the restoration efforts that Project Crimson, and the Department of Conservation has already been achieving in the area. Tuauau of Ngati Rangi have strong connection with this stream.
Our annual fundraising ball was a raging success! Held at Auckland’s Hilton Hotel on Saturday 4 October 2014, over 200 fantastic guests attended and helped us raise $32,367.70 for our cause! A huge thank you to all sponsors, auction item donors, and to everyone who came along — we simply could not have done this without you. A special thanks to Murry Sweetpants and Jodi Pretscherer for your tireless work to pull this event together, you two are true legends.
Event details
Let’s Get Cleaned Up is back for the fourth time at Auckland CBD’s Hilton Hotel on Saturday 4 October, 2014. The Sustainable Coastlines charity ball is the perfect chance to get cleaned up, dust off the dancing shoes and have a rollicking good night. All while raising critical funds for our work.
Starting at 7pm at this fantastic harbourside location, we will have world-class entertainment, delicious drinks and a mouth-watering three-course dining experience; a stellar combination for a night that you will not forget. The evening features performances from:
Secure a table of ten for you and your friends for $1,350 or get individual seats for just $155. Tickets include a three-course meal, all your drinks, world-class entertainment throughout the night and free ticket to the official charity ball after party at Everybody’s, 7 Fort Lane. We’ve even secured the photographic prowess of Barnaby Sweet to capture the evening.
All ticket sales along with live and silent auction packages up for grabs during the evening will raise funds for our ongoing work motivating and educating communities to look after our coastlines and waterways. This will be the night out to celebrate the winter’s end and ring-in spring. Strictly R18, sorry kids.
Getting there
Just head to the Hilton Auckland Hotel, Princes Wharf, 147 Quay St, Auckland CBD. See map at top of this page. The function starts off in style with drinks from 7.00pm and we’ll be getting seated at around 7.45pm. Please be on time so that you don’t miss out on the fantastic food, drinks and performances!
Getting in
Please print and bring along your Eventfinda ticket. If you bought tickets for a group or table, just make sure your group has their ticket or they at least know the name of the person who made the booking. Please ensure your group has all event details.
What to wear?
Whatever you please! Our charity ball is a great chance to dust off the suits and frocks, don the dancing shoes and have a rollicking good night out. Check out some photos from our previous events for an idea.
Charity ball auction
During the evening we will be holding silent and live auctions with celebrity auctioneer Sabine Davison and with an exceptional range to bid on, there will be something for everyone. Check out the auction catalogue and get ready to get bidding on the night.
Official after party
Starts at midnight at Everybody’s at 7 Fort Lane. Entry is free for ball guests and you can invite friends who couldn’t make it to the ball, for them it’s just a $10 koha on the door.
Parking
We don’t have any event-specific parking arrangements, however all-day parking is available at the Viaduct and Downtown carparks, which are both nearby, and via Wilson’s Parking on Princes Wharf. Limited paid valet parking is also available at the hotel subject to availability.
Seating requests
If you have a special seating request (that is, you didn’t buy a full table of ten but want to request that a friend is seated at your table) please email your request to [email protected] before 5pm on Friday 3 October.
On Thursday 14 August, 130 staff from Microsoft offices around the country joined our crew for a unique team building workshop at The Cloud on Auckland’s Waterfront. After an educational presentation from our team to set the scene, the creative challenge began…
Each team of 12 was given wooden pallets, tools and nails to complete the task of creating planter boxes for our future community garden. The goal was to create one box per team, but the teams outdid themselves by building a total of 25 wooden planter boxes, an outstanding effort and an excellent, practical, fun way for staff to add to the development of this high-value community resource that is planned for just around the corner from their Auckland Office.
A massive thank you to the staff from Microsoft for your fantastic efforts, to the team from Waterfront Auckland for your awesome assistance with space and logistics. If you’d like to take part in an event like this, contact us today.
On the back of our highly successful planting day in collaboration with the Te Atatu Marae Coalition, Auckland Council and others, we’d love to get your help to finish off this kaupapa. While the day was a huge success, we still have a big pile of mulch that needs to be spread along one-third of the planting area. We got a lot done on the day, but we have some more mahi yet to finish this off.
If you have a volunteer day you need to use, or just some free time to help out in the local community, please do come and join us for a day or two of mulching. Mulching is really important to help suppress weeds and keep the ground nice from drying out over summer, which gives the 2,400 natives we planted the best chance of survival to next winter.
Many hands make light work so please join us from 9:30am on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October at Harbourview-Orangihina Park, Te Atatu Peninsula (entrance off the roundabout opposite Gloria Ave).
We joined Nelson’s Victory School on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th August to plant 875 trees along the banks of the York Stream in the Bishopdale Reserve.
York Stream passes right through town and then through Victory School so it was a great opportunity for the students to learn the importance of the impact we have upstream.
On Sunday 10th August, we then joined the Friends of the Maitai and Nelson City Council to put 3,000 trees in the ground. It was a fantastic (albeit frosty) community day with around 120 volunteers from all walks of life digging in to give the love back to their beloved Maitai.
This planting was part of an ongoing project that has involved the planting of thousands of native trees along sections of the Maitai River. The trees planted and nurtured through this project provide a perfect natural habitat for native birds, and shade for native fish.
On the 7 August 2014, hardy locals and a CPS crew from the Marlborough region helped plant 609 native seedlings along the banks of the Taylor River as part of our nationwide Love your Water tour.
A huge thanks to Jono Bristed, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Department of Corrections, Department of Conservation, The Marlborough Landscape Group and all the volunteers who dug in.
On Friday the 25th of July, over 70 volunteers planted 650 trees at the beautiful Takaka river mouth. This included 50 dedicated people from Fonterra, the local homeschool group, the Tasman District Council and passionate locals.
A few days later on Sunday 27th July, were were helped by dedicated locals and Tasman District Council to plant 500 trees alongside the Waimea River.
Our experienced staff have delivered educational programs to over 100,000 people, motivated tens of thousands of volunteers to remove over a million litres of rubbish from the coast, and planted thousands of trees alongside our waterways. Now we are looking for people to help us spread our educational messages far and wide.
Our Presentation Training Workshops are free to attend and will pass on the core public speaking skills and knowledge necessary to deliver our presentation, which teaches simple steps and creative changes that we can all make to look after our waterways. We will also share our experiences in Event Management.
Workshops are two hours in length and involve a multimedia presentation and interactive training session.
Tuesday 22 July, 3.15pm to 4.45pm at South Westland Area School
